High Point Enterprise, The (Newspaper) - April 15, 1942, High Point, North Carolina THE WEATHER Weather Point Point mid CONTINUED MILD THE HIGH POINT ENTERPRISE HIGH P O I N I Southern and Hosiery capacity dozen pairs 105 ASSOCIATED SERVICE HIGH WEDNESDAY APRIL 1942 WIDE WORLD FEATURE SERVICE PRICE FIVE CENTS ENEMY ALIEN RAIDS HERE Seven or eight High Point homes raided and searched here this afternoon in a series of simultaneous raids conducted by agents of lie Federal Bureau of Investigation secKing ed enemy aliens or evidences of illegal activity on the part of enemy Cooperating in the simultane raids were High Point police Guilford County sheriffs deputies and members of the Stai Highway The raiding parties divided Into four were armed with search warrants signed un der an executive order of dent which makes it illegal for any enemy alien to possess shortwave radio send ing or receiving blueprints or maps of vital The warrants authorized and seizure and arrests can be made upon the recom of United States At torney Carlyle The raids were conducted fol lowing detailed investigation in High Point on the part of the FBI as well as by local Not only were the inquiries made in complete but a veil of secrecy shrouded the movements of the officers in High Point this un til after the raids had been con The raids here followed a wholesale series of raids in Dur ham Monday and in Greensboro Federal men here did not reveal immediately whether anv arrests would be made as a result of the raids but it was be that two persons were be ing taken to WinstonSalem by FBI men for questioning at Hig fins office It also was believed that some radio equipment and other banned items had been confis The homes raided were all occupied by Italian or German families it was and no Japanese were involved in the V THE WAR TODAY By DeWITT Wide World War Analyst The return of Laval 1 to a position of power in the government of harras sed old Marshal Petain cer tainly is a matter of grave anxiety for the but can see the somber influence in the im it strikes me its too forecast will develop from the One thing which does seem is that we are witnessing a drama which involves the survival of the French The spirit of France of the French people is in the leading role and Iwe must look to this for is PROBLEM Of with half an eye one can see plenty of potential trouble Ifor the United Hitlers acquisition of the French possession of Frances colonies las a diplomatic rupture bc France and the United so eagerly sought by the and what while those are distinct they arent and has no guarantee that they lever will One of the most important ac from the Allied is that the Vichy govern represents the people of un lappy France only so long as it policy of neu with no further outstand ing concessions to the hat is to if the marshal now das been supplanted a pro the government no will have the good will of the vast majority of the people That majority is antiNazi and I must qualify by saying the French havent Tutch use for and never iid But they arc for the Allied and on the whole lave a This is one reason why Hitler heretofore has moved circumspect ly in trying to force concessions rom who has been acting feo far as he could in the spirit of his famous battle cry which the Germans at Verdun They shall not pass Its one ling to have conquered physically proud race of forty odd million and its another to control FEARS FRENCH PI BMC Hitler has boon afraid of the hostility of the French The know that their salvation in an Allied and there Rould be danger to him if he ap methods too WARPLANES SMASH AT JAP BASES IN PHILIPPINE ISLANDS Caustic Comments Of Hugh Johnson Silenced By Death Dies 12 Hours After Writing Last Column Against Doctors Orders for Rest April AP General Hugh Johnson the iron pants of the World and the recovery period and more re cently a caustic newspaper columnist died of pneumonia 12 hours after writing a last column against his doc tors orders for Death came to the former soldier at in a Washington He had been weakened by several months Although he rose from captain to a brigadier general with a dis service medal in the World Johnson died a tech private President Roosevelt on last April 30 refused his reappointment as an army reserve General Johnson came to na tional fame in when he stormed across the country organ izing the recovery pe riod system of codes of practice for business and industry to keep prices and wages from being de He assailed as to and traitors all those who refused to cooperate with When his NRA was in full swing he estimated that it had made jobs and increased the purchasing power by a In his vitriolic campaign against violators of the NRA blue eagle codes Johnson added the phrase j crack down and many others to the American In the Supreme Court declared the NRA setup unconstitutional and Johnson explaining thai his blue eagle was now a sick impatient of the gen eral had quarrelled frequently with fellow New Deal He often criticized the brain trust of presidential advisers and in October of he denounced the New Deal for amazing blun ders and failures and called it GENERAL HUGH JOHNSON British Fall Back In Burma Pounding Forces British And Chinese Back Japs Near Oil Area NEW April fierce fighting along the entire Burmese British and Chinese troops have been forced lo fall back before the re pounding of the Japanese OB S rule by He once publicly told Harry Hopkins to go to the 1936 election cam Johnson was still in President He declared in campaign addresses that the Republican candidate Alf Landon had swallowed the old guard doctrine whole and called for reelection of the Four veara John son was in the Republican i wno now are within 30 miles of Fiom personal allegiance to Burma oil the British President but hatred of the brain announced The have occupied the town of on the Irra waddy River 30 miles from the oil the British The Chinese were forced to give ground on the Sit tang River the communi que It was reported from the Chi nese expeditionary force field headquarters that Chinese forces on the southern front have with drawn to a few miles north of the fighting strong delaying action all the the communique said in describing that In one section about 45 miles southeast of and between the and Sittang the British said they were holding their positions in i of repeated air and ground The resorting to their infiltration tactics used so success fully in in push ing small parties around British positions on the front with the object of inter ferring with our lines of communi the communique They are now being engaged by our the British The British declared that the on trust his policy had changed to denunciation of what he termed i the third new deaf as pointing the nation toward He was among the first to back Wendell V Bush Warfare Continuing In Philippines April and bands of American troops are waging steady bush Warfare against the Japanese to keep as many as pos sible of engaged in the Philippines reports from the islands showed The war departments com last night said that small bodies of troops carried out successful raids against Japanese po in the mountains of north ern Six hundred miles to the south a raiding party ambush ed a Japanese truck column and inflicted heavy The only report from Corregi dor was of intermittent duels be tween forts and enemy bat Soviets Smash Through Nazi Defense Line First Line Of German De fenses Guarding Bryansk Cut By Fierce Red Assault By EDDY GILMORE AP Soviet troops have smashed through the first line of German defenses guarding 200 miles southwest of and are battling fiercely in the second dispatches from the front reported The direct assault on the forti fied lines guarding the key sali ent barely 60 miles from the fron tier of White Russia was said to have developed from an offensive in which numerous communities were recaptured and Ger mans killed in the past two CAPTURE SUPPLIES The dispatches said Nazi sup plies engulfed in the westward sweep of the Russian forces in cluded quantities of new rifles and apparently mov ed up for a German spring Fierce fighting also was report ed northwest of where the Germans were said to have lost men in the past few Red Star said guerrilla detach ments operating back of the Ger man lines in the Smolensk area and widely through White Russia had captured numerous German soldiers including ten An article by lev in the Moscow review ing the fighting since the start of said the Germans had tak en advantage of improved spring weather to try out relatively heavy counter attacks in which all types of arms were brought into The counter the article cost the Nazis dead I and several times that many wounded since April No matter how great a num ber of planes and other en gines of war Germany may pos he it is clear that in 1942 they can no longer carry out operations on last years He said that in intensified air fighting in the first seven days of April the Germans lost 466 planes to the Russians EXPECT MAIN PUSH Red Star expressed the belief the Germans were shifting i their commanders into final posi lion for their expected main I The best information available I here is that Eduard Dietl is in charge of the Karelian front and that Nikolaus vort commander of the German army of occupation in may be moved to a com mand on the Russian is said to have replaced Rudolf Schmidt in the sector southwest of Lake Heinz the tank specialist who commanded in the Smolensk is be to have been called back to leaving that section under command of Adolf who has been in charge in the Rzhev sector where Ger man forces are threatened with All these commanders on the on Page 3 Plans Huge Fleet Of Apri 15 new rine construction program to the United States the under seas striking for a crip pling at Japans long Pa supply route is being pre sented to The program provides for 000 tons of undersea allow for more than 100 of the present cruiser type Sixty five of this type already have been authorized under the 1940 supplementary and the Navy last October had 186 i submarines in NUMBER IS SECRET Chairman Vinson DGa an yesterday he in legislation for the pro but said that for reasons Say Normandie Cebu By Bombs Blaze Due To Carelessness Congressional Subcommittee Says Opportunities For Sab otage Were Abundant April A house naval sub committee blamed careless ness and lack of Hangars Destroyed and Runways Damaged at Nichols Field Three Transports Sunk and Two Others Hit at MacArthur Announces UNITED STATES ARMY HEADQUARTERS IN AUS or proper suj April AP Thirteen big American bomb pei vision today for the operating from Australia made smashing attacks on Jap w men damaged the liner j anese baes and shipping at Davao and Banan m York in the Philippine island Monday and it was an that opportunities dant Were abun i communique said enemy docks and air Concluding a the s a long report n i handling of Gen Ralph Nichols Cebu and Davao orders had were divulge the number of undersea craft to be built under its pro It will go a long he toward providing acy for the United States in underseas if we havent already got Success of American rines now operating in the Pa and Indians Oceans against Japanese troops and supply con voys was believed to have led to development of the new pro Submarine commanders have reported sinking or been given for it to sail on Feb ruary five days after it burn ed and j Asserting that the fire started from sparks from a torch ignited life the subcommittee said investigation failed to disclose any persons intent on acts of sab said the fire was not started with willful or malicious There is no escape from the that the cause and consequences of the fire are directly attributable to care Supplies To French Are Held Up Washington By RAY TUCKER HUMAN A quiet search for pilots by the Air Corps has dis closed that the Armys system of classifying new recruits is bly inadequate and In view of the prospect that the sup ply of fliers will soon fall far be low the number of planes rolling off the assembly the situa tion shocks With the aid of the Civil nautics which seventyfive thousand hoys in its comparatively short tho aviation branch has culled rolls of the military They j have discovered thai approximate ly eight thousand men ele mentary or studies in aerial schools haxe been grabbed and retained by rival in duties for they have no particular though some of this group cannot qualify as radio opera tors or they should be fit subjects for important ground or mechanical They be when the survey has been and transferred to the sections soon must be expanded to a personnel of two The need for airmen is almost Training facilities are so scarce and so congested that on i Surprise Attack Sinks 15 British Japs Say As new submarines come into American admirals haxe the undersea strength to use the same tactics against the Japal nese Germans have used against Atlantic The United Nations haxe been able to keep ahead of these sinkings their huge ship building The Japa are believed to haxe limited shipbuilding facili ties and therefore to be espe to protracted submarine Automobile Tire With Little Rubber Developed By Ford i April i Ford Motor it learned has developed an i automobile tire using only a frac j tion of the amount of ubber need cd for the conventional j Ford engineers have been I experimenting the j since the rubber shortage forced I rationing of all stocks of standard haxe developed a process for j treating the fabric and using not more than the amount of rubber heretofore used in tire Company officials are i ing formal announcement of the pending further although trials under ing conditions are said to have the tire to be capable of great The Ford company has a large part of its tires in a division that is part of the great Rouge Before the upon tire produc tion for uses it said to haxe a capacity of more than units a V CURB SERVICE citys first time style robbery has been Cobb told police a man rode a bicycle up to him on the then pedaled his billfold and April United States hail held up shipments of non military supplies to French North Africa tending clarification of the sit in This disclosed ly mandie may be attributed sa State ft T j t ing 08 Japanese nava and and lack of proper ply the report i 23 RECOMMENDATIONS There no evidence to that the fire on the Nor Welles told a press confer ence that two in New York harbor loaded sup plies for North about to sail in accord ance an agreement an last would he held in Arrangements to send a Red Cross ship milk and childrens layettes to un occupied France also have held in he V x x x opportunities for sai or almost any activity abundant on the x x x that fire may not be attributed to is only there of the fact that if I there did not deem the I time ripe for The subcommittee made 23 rec intended to a repetition of such a one of that operation of Unit ed States merchant should be placed under the jurisdiction of the secretary of the This question of bringing the mechant marine under the Chairman Vinson DGa of the House Naval committee is being discussed at the White MOREHEAD April 1 by Chairman Emory i Fifty nine survivors were i Land of the Maritime landed here Vinson expressed the personal ling of merchant opinion that tht change off the Atlantic coast last come for the merchant all members The Fifth Naval District an under navy the sinkings last The report difficult Four seamen up for to place the for eight others reported of carelessness on any one dual but did say there undue The first attack last Thurs Survivors Of Torpedoed Ships At Morehead City indecision and tack of The cargo ship set ful planning in connection and said the the conversion of the i vessel still burning and set AWARDED CROSS The bombers had hardly come to a standstill on the runway on re turning to their base somewhere in Australia Rush representing the United Nations air George rushed up and handed General Royce the dis flying as directed by President The DFC also to John Hubert Davies of and Frank The raiders destroyed three Japanese transports at Cebu and hit others struck iwo trans ports and probably sunk one at shot down three Japanese planes and damaged several others on the ground destroyed and damaged runways at Field near and did con damage to the an At a Japanese cargo ship presumably carrying military supplies 4 LOSE ONE PLANE The entire spectacular raid was accomplished the loss of only one and its General Brett issued a state ment commending General saying he volunteered for this most important and that His accomplishment un doubtedly be told in detail at a later but it is desired to Continued on 6 RAF Continues Air Offensive Over Continent V From Japanese Broad April warships operating so close to the shore of India that the sailors could see hills and forts sank 15 large enemy merchantmen in less than an hour on the morn ing of April 6 in a surprise attack on a British a Japanese commander said The described as an of the said there were more than a score of vessels in the British He said that as the up to attack the officers apparently mistook the Japanese for a British naval unit and continued to sail southward The Japanese vessels moved in until the guns on the decks of the British craft clearly visible and then opened up it r fire before the British had a chance to Uio commander ves sels set An ton vessel was the first to sink and 14 others short he Bulletin tling by the stern when they were picked up by a rescue Third Mate Sweeney and Ordi nary Seaman Richard Lyons no addresses given were lost when The RAF began its scc ond hours of a nonstop air offensive over the continent this morning with raids against he thcy jumped after their j occupied coast lifeboat caught Lyons body i after very large fires The other 32 burning in the Ruhr brought here and The daylight attacks made i in the of blasting raids on The other ship torpedoed j the Ruhr by a very force of MAJOR OFFENSIVE April v The Japanese are I Saturday and Third Mate j night bombers and all launching a major offensive in Marion Feathers of day attacks against occupied Eu southern Shan states in and Radio Operator 1 rope the Chinese announced mo address kn to The gigantic industrial target in TWO SHIPS ATTACKED April Navy announced that United States tuer vessels had been torpe doed off the Atlantic coast and had been landed st an east coast was a me dium sized ship and the other small the have died in the Eight j of other missing j man industries are concen has been under a hail of bombs for six of the last 10 TONS OF BOMBS The of high the 2 i brought WITH CLASS dinner for the of athletic round table was served by a singing He was Nino famed lyric tenor of the i United States And Vichy Near Break In Diplomatic Relations BV WADE WERNER April United States and Vichy France neared a break with the recall of Ambassador William Leahy generally expected in in formed The State Department withheld any official indication or its reac tion to the return of Collabora Pierre Laval to a key po sition in the Vichy regime pending a report from Admiral Lcavy on the A high source seriously weighing the advisability i structure of of calling Admiral Leahy ington relations considered these Such a recall of j questions i take place a formal sex The French Under German bombs being dropped on the Ruhr said to run into hundreds of tons rach night an attack is The air indicating the scope of nights an 11 bombers The muffled sound of distant ex heard at Folkestone from the direction of the Belgian coast indicated that the RAF had re its daylight offensive against I set a record of nine i and a half hours duration Flying too high to be for mations of British planes later of leaving the sit control or under orders to between the American and orate with warships of Petain governments the same as that Washington and Berlin in the months preceding ac tual MUCH CONJECTURE There much conjecture as to the possibility not only of a the French fleet based at Toulon could be a serious menace to the Allied not only in the Mediterranean but also in the North MADAGASCAR IMPORTANT This strategic frankly conceded last that a complete reexamina tion of American Vichy obviously j this Whether this lead to a final What Hitler and the Japanese rupture of diplomatic clean break with Vichy but a more j French under positive and allout support of the become the key to Free sources against jumping at conclusions mi thc flew over the English evi dently forays returning over the from morning Boulogne and Calais areas of occupied northern The ministry said a strong force of bombers took part in the Ruhr Industrial objectives were heav ily bombed and many some of them left French lne battle for India and the Brit es ish to kee a foothold in the communique within relations might be expecting to get out of I the Japanese position in the vital was a matter on which the new turn in Laval s fortunes here there were in was a matter of grav concern that the government was l Officials reexamining the j theater would be similar to on I 7 ih K Ti Wit ha base on Madagascar Havre and in pied Mines also laid in enemy by other RAF
